Sentences with phrase «rites do»

Whether you belief the church's views on the metaphysical aspects of the rite is irrelevant — the rites do exist.

Even so, Paul's view toward the same - sex aspect of those rites didn't seem very positive at all, and he did call the sex acts (as the NIV put it) «shameful» and «unnatural.»

Therefore the use of the present tense in references to the existence of the temple or to its rites does not prove that the document in which such references occur was written either before or after 70.

The applicable version of the guidelines: Rite does not address directly or even indirectly the Seventh Circuit's view (discussed here and here) that, after Booker, district courts should apply the most recent version of the now - advisory guidelines even when they recommend a longer sentence than the guidelines applicable at the time of the defendant's crime.

Not exact matches

«It was like a rite of passage, and whether he would decide to do business was dependent on how the dinner would go and whether I appreciated the wine and the conversation.»

But overnight camps, despite being a rite of passage for some, do not count.

Though going public is something of a rite of passage for a company of Facebook's size, it isn't easy to pin down why it's choosing this moment to do so.c It's true that, through its many private offerings, the company had acquired nearly enough investors to legally require it to make public much of the information in the IPO filing.

Beyond that both chains have invested in improving their beauty and wellness products and remodeled many stores, something that was hard for Rite Aid to do, struggling with all that debt.

As many courts have noted, disclosure is not a «rite of confession» and a company does not have a general obligation to tell investors whether some (or all) of its gains are ill - gotten.

The difference is that religious has associated rites and ceremonies whereas faith is does not

As to the argument that since Jewish people do not believe in baptism — thus what difference does it make... Yes — we don't believe in it's effectiveness as a spiritual rite, but we know that it is NOT meaningless.

We resonate to the old rites of passage, and wonder what business it is of the State finally to set them aside, with no obvious reason, and with no clear mandate for doing so.

Do you believe that the movie «the rite» is fiction, look up the author he is alive.

& tell this new POPE, If he's doing his JOB rite, we will see AMERICA the way it should be!

It doesn't matter what you say the word means to you, the real meaning is the dictionary definition, which is «a particular system of religious worship, especially with reference to its rites and ceremonies.»

Its not a magic rite, its a sacred practice that symbolizes the washing away of sin that Christ's blood did for all of us, on Calvary's cross.

The Catholic Church and exorcists have reiterated so many times that before they do the rite the person has been tested by doctors and psychologists to rule out some sort of physical or mental illness (whether it may be an illness that no one has discovered or coined / cured is moot).

When did he serve at the altar or perform the sacred rites?

It is intended to be accessible to readers, who will enjoy the historical explanations, the description of the rites as they should be done, clarifications where options differ, and most of all, I think, the meditations on key texts in the beautiful new translation.

Article 38 of the country's interim constitution says that «no person shall be coerced to adopt such faith that he / she does not believe in, nor to practise rites or services to which he / she does not voluntarily consent».

He read the rite in English and Latin and afterward remarked that he used the Douay - Rheims translation so that Richard didn't have to hear the New American Bible.

People can pray for them, baptize them, do the rite of spring for them and it makes no difference.

Would it not be better to continue with the practice of entrusting these children, «with prayerful hope», «to the mercy of God» (as we do in the funeral rite established for them) rather than putting forward our own presumptuous speculations on their fate?

On the whole, the new rites seem to have been widely accepted, though a tremendous amount of teaching needs to accompany them, and many ministers do not find themselves well equipped to perform this work.

They acknowledge their drugs and booze, and do NOT expect to have the same rites as others.

Wheather you believe it's rite or wrong does not matter unless it is you that has the decision to make.

But if the basic biblical images of baptism and the Lord's Supper are carefully studied, it will be seen how much more faithfully the newer rites echo them then did those services to which we have been accustomed.

This, however, does not exhaust the meaning of the rite in the New Testament.

The principle of ex opere operato - the effectiveness of the sacrament does not depend upon the spiritual state of the celebrant, but upon the proper performance of the rite in the Church - does not preclude the importance of a spiritual openness on the part of initiate and celebrant.

Baptism says and does much more than these heretical evasions of the rite, and we are willing to go to absurd lengths to protect ourselves from it.

The breaking of bread mentioned in Acts (2:42, 46) does not seem to have been a formal rite.

I know it doesn't cover the aspect of rite of Lord's Supper or any other rites that a Christian may participate in, but would something like «Immersed in Sacrifice» work?

You don't have to believe in God or practice the various rites of a particular religion, but you would live a much more full life if you are exposed to those teachings.

What is unambiguously clear, however, is that African - American funeral rites reflect an unshakable religious conviction that ultimate meaning and value rests «in God's hands,» and that while we do not know the programmatic details, we remain certain the value of our past life can be entrusted to God's care.

Under the establishment clause every person is also entitled to government that does not sponsor, support or inculcate one religion, religion in general or all religions collectively; that does not prefer one religion over another; that does not build up the real estate or the personnel of a religious institution or set up religious proprietaries not required to supply state - impaired religious access; and that does not compose, initiate or promulgate official prayers, rites or liturgies, or otherwise «play church.»

Yet he himself did not make the repetition of that rite, or John's apocalypticism, the focus of what he himself was up to.

Do you attend wedding funerals and rites of passage from other faiths?

Hoefer 1979) says that the «rite has become a legal condition for the entry into the church which functions as a religious communal group; in this context it fails to convey its full meaning and purpose as the expression of or solidarity with the new humanity in Christ which transcends all communal or caste solidarities»; he also refers to the conclusion of Joseph Belcastro's book A New Testament Doctrine of Baptism for Today, that «the N.T. does not teach that baptism was a condition of salvation or church membership, but baptism was to be available for the disciples of the coming church....

It is not only in the specific «words of institution'that this occurs; the presentness of the Lord is accomplished through the entire rite as something that is done, not merely thought about gratefully and devoutly.

The way in which this was done in an earlier day certainly can not be ours in this time; but the vision, insight, intuition, conviction — call it what you will — that Jesus Christ establishes with the transcendent a «new relation» into which «in rite, celebration, meditation, way of life» (to use Miss Emmet's phrases) we are permitted to enter and to have it made our own — notice I did not say «make our own», which would deny the divine priority in this event — is Christianity.

Only Paul mentions the commandment to repeat the rite, though (since Paul's letter is some years earlier than Mark's gospel) by Mark's time it has doubtless become so customary that it didn't need to be mentioned.

Just as he did in Earthly Powers, Burleigh's new book shows how the over-politicized state, having failed to wipe out Christianity, became insanely jealous of it, eventually trying to appropriate its power and even adopting its rituals and rites to produce new, secularized religions, reproducing in reverse the dogmatism they rejected but without any biblical restraints.

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 1261 declares: «As regards children who have died without Baptism, the Church can only entrust them to the mercy of God, as she does in her funeral rites for them.

The old Roman rite was often done badly and hastily in many places.

For «many citizens who do not share these religious views hold such a compulsory rite to infringe constitutional liberty of the individual.»

To make the contrast even starker, we can point out that the reverse phenomenon appears in Islam, also a missionary religion, but one that does not translate its Scriptures for its canonical rites.

Some decades later, the Fourth Gospel, by advancing the anointing to the burial story, succeeded in reporting that everything possible had been done to perform the customary rites for the dead body of Jesus.

Did I mention that we will tabulate how many of you have gone through these rites to prove that we are spreading our religion in the community and that you really should give us money?

If a person wanted to follow this religion, but did not want to participate in these rites, it would be considered one of the gravest of sins.

Now, granted that religions in the world do have or include within their practices ceremonies, protocols, rites and rituals.